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Screenata vs Secureframe
Secureframe is a GRC platform with in-house experts and strong depth in federal frameworks like CMMC and FedRAMP. Secureframe's own December 2025 survey found teams spend eight hours a week on compliance tasks and more than half have one or zero full-time security people. Screenata is built for exactly that team: Vera runs the checks and records the rest of the evidence while your team works, timestamped and signed, and you pick the auditor. $5,988/year per framework, published.
Side by side
Secureframe guides. Vera records.
Where Screenata is different
Three things Secureframe doesn’t do.
Evidence recorded, not guided
Guidance still ends with a person taking the screenshot and uploading it. Vera records the evidence while your team does the actual task — a browser extension or desktop recorder captures it step by step with a capture-time timestamp — and files it with a signed manifest your auditor can verify outside the platform.
Policies from your real stack, traced to proof
Screenata writes policies from infrastructure scans, flags commitments your systems cannot back, and traces each policy sentence to a claim, a test, and a signed artifact. Secureframe starts from templates and links evidence to controls.
Published price, everything inside
Secureframe does not publish pricing; Vendr's data puts under-50-employee companies at $12–20K a year for one framework, with hands-on implementation adding up to $10K. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, with every module included and no implementation fee.
The operational layer
Where the evidence comes from.
Detect
Scheduled agents scan your cloud, repos, and identity provider continuously, the same signals Secureframe reads.
Do
Vera runs 650+ native checks nightly, records the evidence integrations can't reach while your team does the task, chases the attestations a dashboard can't, and when she finds a gap she opens the finding and drafts the fix.
Verify & sign
After a human applies the change, Vera re-verifies and files a signed, traceable artifact. She escalates judgment calls rather than acting unattended, which is what keeps auditors comfortable.
Secureframe
Test → flag → guided upload
Screenata
Detect → collect & remediate → re-verify → sign
Secureframe, in detail
The questions people ask about Secureframe.
Secureframe pricing
What Secureframe costs
Secureframe is quote-based. Vendr's anonymized transaction data reports $12–20K a year for small companies under 50 employees on a single framework, $20–35K for 50–200 employees on one or two, and $35–55K for growth-stage companies on three or more, with hands-on implementation or expedited timelines adding a few thousand to $10K+. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, with all modules included and no implementation fee.
- Secureframe: quote-based, scaled by frameworks and headcount, implementation extra
- Screenata: $5,988/year per framework, published, modules included
- Both leave the audit to a CPA firm you choose
Secureframe's own numbers
Eight hours a week, one security person
Secureframe's 2026 benchmark survey of 255 practitioners found teams spend an average of eight hours a week on compliance tasks, that 23% name manual audit preparation as their biggest challenge, and that more than half of companies have one or fewer full-time security professionals. That is the buyer Screenata is built for: the evidence is produced while the team works, and the agent does the hands work rather than the one security person.
Secureframe & CMMC
Where Secureframe stands out
Secureframe has invested in federal frameworks — CMMC 2.0 and FedRAMP — where it is a genuine specialist. Screenata runs SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and GDPR through a NIST 800-53 hub so one test proves a control across frameworks, but it does not seed CMMC or FedRAMP programs today. If federal is your path, Secureframe is the stronger fit.
The honest version
When Secureframe is the better fit.
- You need CMMC or FedRAMP, where Secureframe's depth is real
- You want in-house experts on call rather than an agent plus your own auditor
- You have a compliance owner who will drive the platform
Screenata is built for the 5–50 person team that needs SOC 2 to close a deal, wants policies grounded in real infrastructure, and would rather operate compliance from Slack and the terminal than a dashboard. More on who we’re for.
Screenata
$5,988/year per framework ($499/mo), published, no implementation fee
Every module included, per framework. Published, not sales-gated. The audit is priced by the auditor you choose; we sell no audit and take no referral fee.
Secureframe
Quote. Vendr data: $12–20K/yr, under 50 employees, one framework
Third-party figure, not a vendor list price. Ranges scale with frameworks and headcount; see the pricing section above for the full breakdown.
Source: Vendr marketplace: Secureframe pricing (anonymized transaction data), fetched 2026-09-03.
Year one, all in
What year one actually costs.
Sources: Vendr marketplace pages (anonymized transaction data, fetched 2026-09-03); vendors’ own pricing pages and documentation where published; Vanta’s August 2026 screenshot figure; Drata “SOC 2 By the Numbers” 2026. Ranges scale with headcount and framework count; none is a vendor list price unless the vendor publishes one.
Questions
Screenata vs Secureframe, answered.
Is Screenata a good Secureframe alternative?
For SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001, yes. Secureframe is a guided GRC platform with in-house experts and federal-framework depth. Screenata is an evidence platform run by an agent: 650+ native checks nightly and the rest recorded while your team works, timestamped, signed, and verifiable by the auditor you choose, for $5,988 a year per framework, published. For CMMC or FedRAMP, Secureframe is the better fit.
How much does Secureframe cost compared to Screenata?
Secureframe does not publish pricing. Vendr's transaction data reports $12–20K a year for under-50-employee companies on one framework, with hands-on implementation adding up to $10K or more. Screenata is $5,988 a year per framework, published, with every module included.
What can Screenata do that Secureframe can't?
Record evidence while your team does the actual work, with a capture-time timestamp badge and a signed manifest verifiable outside the platform; write policies from infrastructure scans and flag unprovable claims; and trace a policy sentence to a claim, a test, and a signed artifact.
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